May 2024's must-sees

With women's football finally receiving the attention it deserves, this year's Women's FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium on 12 May will be a match to remember, with an enthusiastic crowd and some almost certainly superb playing. It's followed on 25 May by the men's Emirates FA Cup Final, the biggest annual event in Britain's football calendar and historically the most highly attended match final in the world - as well as the oldest, having been first held in 1872.

Chekov's bittersweet final play, The Cherry Orchard, comes to the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in a new production by the visionary Australian director Benedict Andrews. Opening on 26 April and running until 22 June, it marks the London debut of Nina Hoss (best known from Homeland and Tár), who stars alongside two-time Bafta-award winner Adeel Akhtar. Can the aristocratic Madame Ranevskaya and her family adapt to the new order, or must their world be swept away for ever?

This month is the last chance to see an exhibition dedicated to the leading British photojournalist of his time, Bert Hardy, at the Photographers' Gallery, which closes on 2 June. Working mainly for the mass-market Picture Post magazine, Hardy created iconic images of mid-century London, which contrast with his work as a combat cameraman, when he covered the Blitz as well as the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. His work is nostalgic, humane, often funny, sometimes very moving, and always beautifully composed.

Reopening on 2 May, a small terraced house in Wandsworth hides a series of extraordinary rooms, decorated by the Kenyan poet and civil servant Khadambi Asalache. Over 20 years he covered every surface in the house with intricately hand-carved wooden fretwork and paintings, creating one of the most exotic interiors in London. Now owned by the National Trust, visits of no more than six people are allowed at one time and must be pre-booked, so it's a special and intimate experience.